The sources of antislavery constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848 /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wiecek, William M., 1938-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©1977.
Subjects:
Slavery > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Constitutional history > United States.
Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis.
Constitutional history
Slavery > Law and legislation
Abschaffung
Sklaverei
United States
USA
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Ambiguous Beginnings of Antislavery Constitutionalism: Somerset
  • 2. Antislavery during and after the American Revolution
  • 3. Slavery in the Making of the Constitution
  • 4. Antislavery in the New Nation
  • 5. Missouri Statehood: The Second Crisis of the Union
  • 6. The Southern Counteroffensive
  • 7. Antislavery Renascent
  • 8. Constitutional Sparring
  • 9. Moderate Constitutional Antislavery: Abolition Manquee
  • 10. The Garrisonian Critique
  • 11. Radical Constitutional Antislavery: The Imagined Past, the Remembered Future
  • Epilogue: Beyond Free Soil.

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